Transmigration: The Little Chef Calls The Shots
Chapter 200 - 200 200 Looking for Someone_1

Chapter 200: Chapter 200 Looking for Someone_1 Chapter 200: Chapter 200 Looking for Someone_1 Xia Zheng scooped up the panicked Lin Yuan in his arms and quickly headed towards the carriage, knowing something that others didn’t.

While in the Capital, he was aware that many high-ranking officials kept numerous young girls and even boys for pleasure in their mansions.

Xiao Linshuang might be young, but she was pretty, smart, and clever—if Lin Dashuan had actually kidnapped her and sold her into such a place, she would likely be quickly resold, making it even harder to find her.

The third aunt never imagined her eldest son could commit such an utterly heartless act; she beat her chest and stamped her feet, cursing “beast,” while Xiao He’s mother, watching her own daughter, flashed a complex look in her eyes, as if thinking something, and started to smile faintly.

Lin Yuan’s entire focus was on Xiao Linshuang; she couldn’t concern herself with others.

Brought back to her senses by Liu Limin’s patting on her face, she realized she had already been carried into the carriage by Xia Zheng.

She pinched herself fiercely, forcing herself to be strong.

She lifted the curtain and asked Xia Zheng, who was about to drive the carriage with a whip in hand, “Are we, going to the town?

Searching each house one by one?”

The only option now was to search each house individually, but that would waste so much time.

She feared that her little sister might not survive until they arrived if she had already been…

Lin Yuan didn’t dare let her thoughts wander further; she just prayed silently in her heart that her little sister would have divine protection and hold on until they could rescue her.

Xia Zheng gave the horse’s hindquarters a slap, furrowed his brows, and looked deeply concerned, “According to Lin Wei, the little girl went missing around the time we returned to the village, but since we didn’t encounter anyone on the main road, it seems Lin Dashuan must have taken a side path.”

As he spoke, he skillfully turned the carriage around and looked back to ask, “You’re from Linjia Hollow, do you know any other routes to the town?”

Any other routes, how she wished she knew.

But to be accurate, she wasn’t really from Linjia Hollow.

Lin Yuan racked her brains, trying to extract some clues from the original host’s memories, but alas, there were none.

Just as anxiety peaked, Lan Hua came running, holding up the carriage pole, too breathless to speak, waving an embroidered shoe in hand and saying urgently, “This, my brother found it!”

At the time Xiao Linshuang went missing, Lin Changqing was learning skills with Lin Jiaxin and immediately set out with people to search.

Seeing the tiny embroidered shoe, Lin Yuan’s eyes brightened—having the shoe meant having a lead!

“Where was it found?”

Lan Hua pointed in the direction they came from, “There!

My brother sent people to search each path to the town, and this was found on one of those paths.”

Upon hearing this, Xia Zheng immediately drove the carriage in the direction Lan Hua indicated.

It must be said, although Lin Dashuan was fond of liquor, he was a clever and meticulous man.

He chose a narrow, difficult path covered with overgrown wild grass on the sides.

If Lin Changqing wasn’t careful, they would have likely missed Xiao Linshuang’s embroidered shoe.

Given the harsh conditions of the path, continuing by carriage was impossible.

Xia Zheng, without a word, quickly unhitched the carriage reins.

Without spare time to look for a saddle and other equipment, he leapt onto the horse’s back.

“I’m coming too!” Lin Yuan jumped down from the carriage, her bright, sparkling eyes staring intently at Xia Zheng.

Her sister was missing, and she could not stand idly by.

Xia Zheng knew her stubbornness well, and since there was no more time to waste, he leaned down, reached out, and pulled Lin Yuan onto the horse’s back, sitting in front of himself.

It was Lin Yuan’s first time riding a horse, and she didn’t know where to place her hands.

Xia Zheng caught her flustered small hands and placed them around his waist.

Even though she was holding on to his waist backwards, Lin Yuan instantly felt a strong sense of security, so much so that she no longer felt the saddle was uncomfortably hard.

“We need to go ahead, you all follow!” he hurriedly dropped a sentence.

With a squeeze of his legs, Xia Zheng had already dashed quite a distance away.

Lin Yuan could only hear the whooshing wind in her ears, stinging her cheeks.

Xia Zheng’s horse riding skills were even better than his carriage driving.

Despite the lack of a saddle, the two of them did not feel the ride to be bumpy.

Even if it were, Lin Yuan had no leisure to fret over her aching buttocks anymore.

Her sister’s life was at stake, and if she was a minute or even a second late, the sisters might never see each other again.

Thinking of how the Lin family’s life had just started to improve and now they were facing a tragic separation, a sourness filled Lin Yuan’s nose, and tears swirled in her eyes.

This was the first time she had cried since arriving here.

“Don’t be afraid, I’m with you!” Xia Zheng’s chest was pressed tightly against Lin Yuan’s back, and feeling her upset emotions, he whispered a gentle promise in her ear.

Even though it was a simple pledge of just five words, a warm current spread through Lin Yuan’s body, giving her limitless strength and belief.

With him here, her little sister would be fine, with him here, their family would never be torn apart!

Having galloped for a good while without catching sight of Lin Dashuan, the tracks on the small path indicated that someone had indeed just passed by.

Fearing that Lin Dashuan might hide at the sound of the horses’ hooves, Lin Yuan bore the pain and asked Xia Zheng to slow down, which made her even more anxious.

As she looked around, Xia Zheng suddenly pulled on the reins, his eyebrows slightly furrowed as he turned his gaze to a patch of thriving weeds by the side of the path.

Lin Yuan, with lesser hearing ability, did listen quietly and seemed to hear a whimpering sound.

There, someone was there!

After helping Lin Yuan dismount, Xia Zheng casually picked up a stick and carefully parted the weeds, feeling both surprised and disappointed when he finally saw the figure in front of him.

He had thought they would find Lin Dashuan holding Xiao Linshuang captive, but instead, it was Xiao Shitou, who had been kidnapped alongside her!

The moment he saw that someone had found him, the gagged Xiao Shitou immediately burst into tears.

Xia Zheng quickly picked him up out of the weeds, and only then did Lin Yuan see that Xiao Shitou’s clothes had been stripped off; his shirt was used as a rope to tie his hands, and his pants to bind his legs, with his underwear balled up and stuffed into his mouth.

After all, he was just a six-year-old child who had been through such an ordeal today.

Seeing Lin Yuan, Xiao Shitou threw himself into her arms and cried loudly, repeatedly calling out, “Xiao Yaya, Xiao Yaya was carried away by uncle!

Uncle is so bad, so very bad!

Sister Yuanyuan, please save Xiao Yaya, I…

I can’t save her, wuwu, I’m useless, I can’t save her!”

So it turned out that Xiao Shitou wasn’t crying out of fear; he was crying out of self-blame for not being able to rescue Xiao Linshuang from Lin Dashuan.

Lin Yuan’s nose tingled with emotion as she comforted him, “Don’t cry, I’ll save Xiao Yaya now.

Do you know where your uncle took her?

Xiao Shitou sniffed, sobbing as he said, “He talked about some place called ‘Li’ and mentioned something about lots of silver.

Wuwu, uncle also said, if I were a girl, he would have been able to get twice the money.”

Xia Zheng clenched his fists so tightly they made a cracking sound, seething with anger.

Lin Dashuan was even willing to sell his own nephew.

Was he still human?